Purnululu – Bungle Bungles This painting shows the country that Craiglyn’s grandmother comes from, Purnululu. It is also the country of her son, renowned Warmun artist Jack Britten. Purnululu ( The Bungle Bungles) is located 55 kms south west of the Warmun Community. It is a significant point of reference Read more…
Red Butte Red Butte is a hill which lies at the start of Jarlalu (the Ord River) on Texas Downs Station. There is a cave in Red Butte where a juwarri (witch) lives. She was a girl called Gudbarriyal who ran away from Lissadell Station. She went wangala (mad) when Read more…
Dayiwul Ngarranggarni – Geraldine Bedford Geraldine’s aunty Lena Nyadbi told her this story and now Geraldine is the custodian. Women travelled up river placing a spinifex net across the water to catch Dayiwul (Barramundi). Halfway to Gawinji the women stopped and left the net at this place; it turned Read more…
Dayiwul Ngarranggarni – Geraldine Bedford Geraldine’s aunty Lena Nyadbi told her this story and now Geraldine is the custodian. Women travelled up river placing a spinifex net across the water to catch Dayiwul (Barramundi). Halfway to Gawinji the women stopped and left the net at this place; it turned Read more…
My Birthplace This painting is about a place at Alice Downs Station, Eileen’s birthplace, right next to this beautiful big boab tree near the creek there. The Boab we are born under then becomes our tree. We all have our special Boab tree.
Ngaginyji Joomooloony This painting is about Joomena’s Ngaginyji Joomooloony, her boab tree. “The boab tree we are born under becomes our special tree for life; this one is Ngaginyji Joomooloony, which means ‘My Boabtree’” Eileen Bray Joomena was born on the side of a dusty highway along the road from Read more…
BOORNOOLOOLOO (PURNULULU) – PATRICK MUNG MUNG ‘That one Boornoolooloo (Purnululu) – Bungle Bungle Country,’ Patrick Mung Mung says. Through his late father, senior Gija leader and esteemed cross-cultural communicator George Mung Mung, Patrick is a traditional owner of the world heritage listed Boornoolooloo (Purnululu). Of this work Patrick says, ‘That’s Read more…
